The Senate Select Committee on Property Tax
Reform will meet Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. at the following
location:

Lone Star College Montgomery

3200 College Park Drive

Conroe, TX 77384

Performing Arts Center (Bldg. D),

Mainstage Theatre (Room D100)

The committee will hear invited and public
testimony on the following interim charges:

·Evaluate the effective tax rate and
rollback tax rate calculations and identify modifications that would yield a
rollback process that is meaningful for local governments and for citizens.
Evaluate whether the current rollback election trigger serves modern
objectives.

·Study the feasibility of replacing
the property tax with sales tax or other consumption tax revenue, with
emphasis on school maintenance and operations tax. Evaluate whether some
local property taxes lend themselves to a swap more than others. Quantify the
short-term and long-term economic effects of a tax swap. Identify a target
property tax rate and evaluate how to reach that target with a consumption
tax swap.

Those wishing to give public testimony,
please limit prepared remarks to 3

minutes. If submitting written testimony,
please submit 20 copies, with